Venture-Agent, Indiana—Valparaiso
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Announcing PFS at Arcticon on February 16th right here in my hometown of Valparaiso Indiana!
Arcticon is a 1 day con.
Last year we only ran 6 tables but I'm hoping to greatly increase that this year.
Here is the Schedule:
Slot 1: 9:00am - 1:00pm
Slot 2: 2:00pm - 6:00pm
Slot 3: 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Slot A: 11:00am - 4:00pm
Slot B: 6:00pm - 11:00pm
Table 1:
Slot 1: First Steps Part 1 (Tier 1)
Slot 2: First Steps Part 2 (Tier 1)
Slot 3: First Steps Part 3 (Tier 1)
Table 2:
Slot 1: 4-01 Rise of the Goblin Guild (Tier 1-5)
Slot 2: 4-07 Severing Ties (Tier 1-5)
Slot 3: 4-11 The Disappeared (Tier 1-5)
Table 3:
Slot 1: 3-02 Sewer Dragons of Absalom (Tier 3-7)
Slot 2: 4-09 The Blakros Matrimony (Tier 3-7)
Slot 3: We Be Goblins! (Tier 1, uses pregens)
Table 4:
Slot A: 4-07 Severing Ties (Tier 1-5)
Slot B: 4-11 The Disappeared (Tier 1-5)
Table 5:
Slot A: 4-EX Day of the Demon (Tier 3-7)
Slot B: 4-EX Day of the Demon (Tier 3-7)
Table 6:
Slot A: 4-10 Feast of Sigils (Tier 7-11)
Slot B: 4-12 The Refuge of Time (Tier 7-11)
I'm in need of GMs so if you're at all interested in GMing shoot me an email at PFSNWI@gmail.com
I'll have a warhorn site up in a week or two and now need to work on getting the word out.
Venture-Lieutenant, California—Los Angeles (South Bay)
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Sigh...I would love to come to this, but I am simply not able to. Not with it right next to M-Dog in timing.
I am sorry that you can't make it but please let folks in Western Michigan know about Articon. I was one of the GMs last year. Yes, Brian, I am volunteering again.
We could use more volunteers and some players. If you know anyone who is knew to Pathfinder or just wants to try out a PFS game, we will have the tables of First Steps.
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Yes, the tier is the level range. And most tiers are broken into subtiers. So, for instance, a tier 1-5 adventure is for any characters between levels 1-5, but it could be played at subtier 1-2 or subtier 4-5, depending on the levels of the players that show up.
Ok cool. As you can imagine, just starting out all my characters are at level 1 lol. So I'll be sticking to the lower end of that range :)
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Ok cool. As you can imagine, just starting out all my characters are at level 1 lol. So I'll be sticking to the lower end of that range :)Yes, the tier is the level range. And most tiers are broken into subtiers. So, for instance, a tier 1-5 adventure is for any characters between levels 1-5, but it could be played at subtier 1-2 or subtier 4-5, depending on the levels of the players that show up.
You should definitely start with the First Steps adventures. They're fun little adventures designed to help new players with level 1 characters get up to speed on Society concepts. And if you play all 3 of them with the same PC, you'll be level 2 when you're done.
Also, they avoid the problem of showing up to a level 1-5 adventure with a level 1 character, and finding that everyone else at the table is level 4-5 and wants to play the higher subtier. You can technically go along with a level 1 character in that situation, but it's likely to be very dangerous for you. I wouldn't recommend playing up that way until you're at least level 2, or preferably 3 (though you can get away with it more readily in some of the easier scenarios).
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Ok cool. As you can imagine, just starting out all my characters are at level 1 lol. So I'll be sticking to the lower end of that range :)Yes, the tier is the level range. And most tiers are broken into subtiers. So, for instance, a tier 1-5 adventure is for any characters between levels 1-5, but it could be played at subtier 1-2 or subtier 4-5, depending on the levels of the players that show up.
You should definitely start with the First Steps adventures. They're fun little adventures designed to help new players with level 1 characters get up to speed on Society concepts. And if you play all 3 of them with the same PC, you'll be level 2 when you're done.
Also, they avoid the problem of showing up to a level 1-5 adventure with a level 1 character, and finding that everyone else at the table is level 4-5 and wants to play the higher subtier. You can technically go along with a level 1 character in that situation, but it's likely to be very dangerous for you. I wouldn't recommend playing up that way until you're at least level 2, or preferably 3 (though you can get away with it more readily in some of the easier scenarios).
Ok cool, I appreciate the advice. I came up through high school and college on D&D 3rd/3.5 pretty hardcore, so most of this isn't all totally unfamiliar. I'm getting up to speed with our local shop in South Bend. Had my first PFS adventure this past Saturday and I really didn't have any trouble.
I'm actually hoping to have my main character up to level 3 by the time of the con. I'm sure level 2 will be no problem, but 3 may be a stretch.
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Venture-Lieutenant, California—Los Angeles (South Bay)
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Brian, as previously stated, I am available for whatever slots are needed.
Also, on the Warhorn site, can have directions for our out of town visitors and maybe some places for them to grab something to eat?
It is fairly easy to get to Valparaiso from Chicago, Western Michigan and Indianapolis. So, I hope to see many of the people I know of by name at the convention.
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I'm in! (I'll text you what slots I'll run, Brian.)
nb3D: Which store do you play at? Is this a private group or is it open to curmudgeony out-of-towners? Will you be my friend?
Griffon. I've only played the once, but it was awesome getting back into the game and I'm pretty much already re-hooked.
And yes, I will be your friend.
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Venture-Agent, Indiana—Valparaiso
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Ok Major updates time!
First of all Day of the Demon won't be out in time so there will be two slots of Cyphermage Dilemma in its place.
I have also adjusted the time on slot 2.
There's only 30 minutes for a lunch break but there will be food there.
Slot 1: 9:00am - 1:00pm
Slot 2: 1:30pm - 5:00pm
Slot 3: 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Slot A: 11:00am - 4:00pm
Slot B: 6:00pm - 11:00pm
Table 1:
Slot 1: First Steps Part 1 (Tier 1) GM: William Ronald
Slot 2: First Steps Part 2 (Tier 1) GM: Brandon Wolak
Slot 3: First Steps Part 3 (Tier 1) GM: Fromper
Table 2:
Slot 1: 4-01 Rise of the Goblin Guild (Tier 1-5) GM: Fromper
Slot 2: 4-11 The Disappeared (Tier 1-5) GM: William ROnald
Slot 3: 4-07 Severing Ties (Tier 1-5) GM: Still needed!
Table 3:
Slot 1: 3-02 Sewer Dragons of Absalom (Tier 3-7) GM: Brandom Wolak
Slot 2: 4-09 The Blakros Matrimony (Tier 3-7) GM: Stephen Krause
Slot 3: We Be Goblins! (Tier 1, uses pregens) GM: Brandon Wolak
Table 4:
Slot A: 4-07 Severing Ties (Tier 1-5) GM: Pete Marron
Slot B: 4-11 The Disappeared (Tier 1-5) GM: William ROnald
Table 5:
Slot A: 4-EX Day of the Demon (Tier 3-7) GM: Brian D. Mooney
Slot B: 4-EX Day of the Demon (Tier 3-7) G: Brian D. Mooney
Table 6:
Slot A: 4-10 Feast of Sigils (Tier 7-11) GM: Tom Baumbach
Slot B: 4-12 The Refuge of Time (Tier 7-11) GM: Pete Marron
Only 1 slot still needs a GM!
I'm still waiting on confirmation from Chris Bonnet and possibly other Indianapolis folks. Those of you who volunteered to GM more but wanted to play may get freed up yet but as of right now those will be your scenarios.
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Venture-Lieutenant, California—Los Angeles (South Bay)
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It is good to see this coming together.
Valparaiso is fairly easy to get to from Chicago, Western Michigan and Indianapolis. Plus, several of our DMs can direct you to a few things in the area, such as restaurants. So, please consider attending. Please pass the word on to anyone you know who lives within a reasonable distance of Valparaiso and might be interested in spending a good day of gaming on February 16th.
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Given that I have a 90 minute drive each way, I wasn't planning to show up first thing in the morning for slot 1. But you've scheduled me to GM in slots 1 and 3, which could make for a very long day, with all the driving. I'm not as young as I used to be, so I'm just worried that if I have to leave home by 7 AM, I might fall asleep at the wheel driving home after midnight.
So is there any chance I could trade GM slots with someone to give up my slot 1 scenario and GM something in slot 2 or A instead? I've played everything on tables 1-4, so I could run any of those relatively easily.
If that's not possible, I can GM the stuff you've got me scheduled for on slots 1 and 3, but I might need help finding a place to take a nap during slot 2.
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Venture-Agent, Indiana—Valparaiso
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Sorry Fromper I should have thought of that.
I juggled things around a bit and now it's the 8am severing ties slot that needs a GM still. Let me know if that works.
Slot 1: 9:00am - 1:00pm
Slot 2: 1:30pm - 5:00pm
Slot 3: 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Slot A: 11:00am - 4:00pm
Slot B: 6:00pm - 11:00pm
Table 1:
Slot 1: First Steps Part 1 (Tier 1) GM: William Ronald
Slot 2: First Steps Part 2 (Tier 1) GM: Brandon Wolak
Slot 3: First Steps Part 3 (Tier 1) GM: Fromper
Table 2:
Slot 1: 4-07 Severing Ties (Tier 1-5) GM: Still needed!
Slot 2: 4-11 The Disappeared (Tier 1-5) GM: William ROnald
Slot 3: We Be Goblins! (Tier 1, uses pregens) GM: Brandon Wolak
Table 3:
Slot 1: 3-02 Sewer Dragons of Absalom (Tier 3-7) GM: Brandom Wolak
Slot 2: 4-01 Rise of the Goblin Guild (Tier 1-5) GM: Fromper
Slot 3: 4-09 The Blakros Matrimony (Tier 3-7) GM: Stephen Krause
Table 4:
Slot A: 4-07 Severing Ties (Tier 1-5) GM: Pete Marron
Slot B: 4-11 The Disappeared (Tier 1-5) GM: William ROnald
Table 5:
Slot A: 4-EX Day of the Demon (Tier 3-7) GM: Brian D. Mooney
Slot B: 4-EX Day of the Demon (Tier 3-7) G: Brian D. Mooney
Table 6:
Slot A: 4-10 Feast of Sigils (Tier 7-11) GM: Tom Baumbach
Slot B: 4-12 The Refuge of Time (Tier 7-11) GM: Pete Marron
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Venture-Agent, Indiana—Valparaiso
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Ok Updated again.
Tom B had to back out but Brandon reminded me of one more volunteer I had.
Also slot 2 was supposed to go till 5:30
Slot 1: 9:00am - 1:00pm
Slot 2: 1:30pm - 5:30pm
Slot 3: 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Slot A: 11:00am - 4:00pm
Slot B: 6:00pm - 11:00pm
Table 1:
Slot 1: First Steps Part 1 (Tier 1) GM: William Ronald
Slot 2: 4-07 Severing Ties (Tier 1-5) GM: William Ronald
Slot 3: 4-07 Severing Ties (Tier 1-5) GM: William Ronald
Table 2:
Slot 1: 3-02 Sewer Dragons of Absalom (Tier 3-7) GM: Brandom Wolak
Slot 2: First Steps Part 2 (Tier 1) GM: Brandon Wolak
Slot 3: We Be Goblins! (Tier 1, uses pregens) GM: Brandon Wolak
Table 3:
Slot 1: 4-11 The Disappeared (Tier 1-5) GM: Adam Nyriri
Slot 2: 4-01 Rise of the Goblin Guild (Tier 1-5) GM: Fromper
Slot 3: First Steps Part 3 (Tier 1) GM: Fromper
Table 4:
Slot A: 4-09 The Blakros Matrimony (Tier 3-7) GM: Stephen Krause
Slot B: 4-11 The Disappeared (Tier 1-5) GM: Adam Nyiri
Table 5:
Slot A: 3-EX The Cyphermage Dilemma (Tier 1-5) GM: Brian D. Mooney
Slot B: 3-EX The Cyphermage Dilemma (Tier 1-5) GM: Brian D. Mooney
Table 6:
Slot A: 4-10 Feast of Sigils (Tier 7-11) GM: Pete Marron
Slot B: 4-12 The Refuge of Time (Tier 7-11) GM: Pete Marron
If Chris and anyone from Indy can make it I may be able to free up slots for those of you who want to play some but for now go with this.
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Thanks, Brian! I will read Rise of the Goblin Guild and be ready to run it by then. I already have First Steps 3 down cold, so that one's easy.
Sorry to be difficult, but Matrimony was in Slot 2 when I volunteered and it keeps getting moved around to slot 3 and now to slot A. This is thwarting my efforts to play slots 1 and 3 with my friend.
Brian seems to be rightly concerned about matrimony running over the 4 hour slot, which it could with some groups. I believe I can run it in 4 hours though. It took about 3.5 hrs when Fromper and I played it. But we had a great group and a well run table.
Could Matrimony please be moved back to slot 2? Or perhaps it would be better if I could trade blackros matrimony in slot A for Goblin Guild or Feast of Sigils in slot 2.
As slot A starts at 11am, I think this would fit Fromper's no early morning to late night rule, and would let me play slot 1. But I'm not sure he liked Matrimony all that much....
Another option would be to trade Blakros with Pete's Feast of Sigils and I could run Sigils in Slot 2. I ran Sigils twice this weekend at Winter Fantasy in less than 4 hours with role play heavy groups so I'm sure I can make it will fit the 4 hour slot. Honestly goblin guild can be harder to finish in 4 hours than Feast of Sigils is, in particular with a 1-2 table that struggles.
Fromper- If you are willing to trade I can give you the mod on monday, along with the pictures and handouts Sammy used when we all played it together.
Pete- If you do run Sigils, Thea has some good DM prep materials over in the shared prep thread, such as summaries for all the spells the big baddie has during the end fight. They were useful when I ran it. I saw there was something for Matrimony as well, but I haven't seen how useful it is yet. I can give you pictures of the NPCs at the con which are helpful to keep the table clear on who they are talking to.
I already have both Goblin Guild and Feast of Sigils prepped as I've ran them before at cons. Could someone please help me out? As I said before, I really would like to DM slot 2 and play slot 1 and 3.
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I can swap Blakrose with rise of the goblin guild as long as Fromper doesn't mind being there at 11 and having a 3 hour break in between (there should plenty else going on at the con)
I don't want to move the 7-11s out of the 5 hour slots.
Sounds good Brian.
Fromper- Please let me know about whether you're willing to trade.
Stephen
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I can swap Blakrose with rise of the goblin guild as long as Fromper doesn't mind being there at 11 and having a 3 hour break in between (there should plenty else going on at the con)
I don't want to move the 7-11s out of the 5 hour slots.
Sounds good Brian.
Fromper- Please let me know about whether you're willing to trade.
Stephen
Yeah, that's fine with me. I haven't prepped Goblin Guild or Blackros Matrimony yet, but I've played both, so they both work out the same for me. And 11 AM is late enough that I can still sleep to a normal hour, rather than having to wake up early on a day when I know I won't be home until after midnight. I was just concerned with getting there at 9 AM being a bit too long for the day.
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Yeah, that's fine with me. I haven't prepped Goblin Guild or Blackros Matrimony yet, but I've played both, so they both work out the same for me. And 11 AM is late enough that I can still sleep to a normal hour, rather than having to wake up early on a day when I know I won't be home until after midnight. I was just concerned with getting there at 9 AM being a bit too long for the day.
Thanks so much. I will make a copy of Sammy's materials for you to use, if you wish, and bring them on Monday.
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Thanks so much. I will make a copy of Sammy's materials for you to use, if you wish, and bring them on Monday.
Yeah, that's fine with me. I haven't prepped Goblin Guild or Blackros Matrimony yet, but I've played both, so they both work out the same for me. And 11 AM is late enough that I can still sleep to a normal hour, rather than having to wake up early on a day when I know I won't be home until after midnight. I was just concerned with getting there at 9 AM being a bit too long for the day.
That would be great. Sammy's "extras" were a great idea, and being able to use those when I run it would be very helpful.
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Venture-Lieutenant, California—Los Angeles (South Bay)
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I can't remember if I ever got around to posting on COWS or not.
If you want to then feel free, the more we get the better.
Brian, I am on COWS as well. However, maybe you can get a little information together on the location and directions that one of us can post on the COWS site.